[debhelper-devel] Bug#876453: Remove support for upstart jobs from dh_installinit

[Michael Biebl]

Am 22.09.2017 um 14:18 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 10.9
> Severity: normal
> 
> dh_installinit supports the installation of upstart job files.
> I think we should stop doing that, given that upstart is no longer a
> supported init system in Debian.
> 
> I'm a bit uncertain whether we should just rip out the code or keep it
> and make it conditional on the use of the debhelper compat level.
> 
> Since upstart jobs are conffiles, they need to be removed manually on
> upgrades. I guess the best we can do is to document that maintainers
> need to that that themselves (e.g. via a .maintscript file)?


I guess removing upstart support completely can only be done once
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-installs-deprecated-upstart-configuration.html
is close to zero.

I see that we already cleaned up dh_installinit wrt to .service and
.tmpfile units in compat level 11 and beyond so it seems like a good
opportunity to do the same for .upstart jobs as an intermediate step
until we can remove upstart support completely from debhelper.

Attached is a patch doing this first step (deprecating .upstart in newer
compat levels).

WDYT?

Michael


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